There is one thing both Gholston and Sanchez had in common. Their draft stocks both skyrocketed after the season was over. Gholston was a late first rounder/early second rounder before the combine. Sanchez has followed the path of a lot of QBs over recent years where people don't think all that highly of them in January/February and then they shoot up the draft board as April comes around (see Alex Smith).

I don't know why people think that about Gholston. I've found multiple mocks from January 2008 and all of them have Gholston gone by 15.

yes. but in the jets case if they truly believed there was a 30% chance gholston would be great and a 70% chance he'd bust like he did, whereas they had other guys they could take who had a much lower bust rate, i think you may have to go with lower ceiling guys.

The idea that Gholston came out of nowhere is a fallacy. He had a monster junior year at Ohio State, by the end of January, even before the combine, he was a common pick for the Jets @ #6.

Maybe I am wrong, but a lot of mocks had him lower. I only remember because I was against drafting him when people thought the Pats would draft him. I knew I referenced several credible mocks that had him a low first/early second. Maybe it wasn't universal believed though as I remembered.

I never got the infatuation with him. I felt he was mostly effective at the bull rush in college and you aren't successful at the bull rush as your signiture move unless you are bigger than Gholston is.

yes. but in the jets case if they truly believed there was a 30% chance gholston would be great and a 70% chance he'd bust like he did, whereas they had other guys they could take who had a much lower bust rate, i think you may have to go with lower ceiling guys.

i read once something about belichick's drafting philosophy. the analysis basically said that he would rather 'hit doubles' in the first round and not swing for the fences and miss. then he'd take more chances in the later rounds. probably explains why he loves all those picks in later rounds. costs too much money and sets franchises back when you take guys like gholston and ducasse.

But the Jets could have outmaneuvered the Pats and made a trade with New Orleans to drop to 10 (the Pats traded with NO to move down to 10 to draft Mayo). Granted the Pats could have taken Mayo at 7, but word was the Pats were targetting Mayo and wanted to take him lower than the 7th pick. They actually were rumored to want to trade down to 13-16 range to draft him, but couldn't find a taker to trade again.

Again, hindsight is 20/20. Tannenbaum and Mangini could have thought Gholston was a grand slam home run pick and would have traded up to get him.

But the Jets could have outmaneuvered the Pats and made a trade with New Orleans to drop to 10 (the Pats traded with NO to move down to 10 to draft Mayo). Granted the Pats could have taken Mayo at 7, but word was the Pats were targetting Mayo and wanted to take him lower than the 7th pick. They actually were rumored to want to trade down to 13-16 range to draft him, but couldn't find a taker to trade again.

Again, hindsight is 20/20. Tannenbaum and Mangini could have thought Gholston was a grand slam home run pick and would have traded up to get him.

I dont know if anybody wanted to trade up to that spot.

Also about the safe pick, it was probably because we had David Harris that we didn't draft Mayo. We felt pretty secure at ILB. We needed a pass rusher and Gholston had the most upside as a pass rusher.